On Abortion, Can’t Pro-Lifers Leave Religion Out of the Discussion? (Report from CPAC) [View all]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/03/15/on-abortion-can-t-pro-lifers-leave-religion-out-of-the-discussion.html


Ann Wagner, 2011; Marjorie Dannenfelser, 2010; escort awaits Planned Parenthood visitors before a pro-life protest, 2013. (Alex Wong/Getty, The Washington Post/Getty, Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty)

by Caitlin Dickson Mar 15, 2013 5:53 PM EDT

A CPAC panel Friday tried to focus on the procedure’s side effects on women, physically and mentally. One attendee wishes that were the major line of attack—and not just faith.

Alex sat behind several rows of empty seats in Maryland’s Gaylord Convention Center’s main ballroom on Friday, listening intently to the pro-life panel discussion ahead of her, looking down at her sparkly encased iPad only occasionally between applause and nods.

“I think in this day and age women deserve better,” the 24-year-old Alabama transplant said at the end of the CPAC panel, declining to give her last name because she now works in D.C. politics. “The anti-abortion movement needs to emphasize to young women that we care about you, we want to offer you other options and prevent the damage that abortions can have on women. I think this panel did a good job of explaining that.”

The panelists, who took the stage following Mitt Romney’s lukewarmly anticipated speech, were here to talk about abortion and the pro-life movement’s strategy for reversing the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision 40 years after the ruling.

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